Annoyingly, when I go to that page, even from Google where I found that URL too, I end up at the German homepage www.history.de (no path, the main page). I cannot go to history.com no matter what.

I hate "intelligent" websites as much as I like touchpad microwaves, and that means not at all. Why would anyone assume an enforced(!!!) connection between my geographic location and the language-version of the website?

It's one of the classic falsehoods that programmers (or perhaps more accurately, product managers) believe about localization: that location equals language.

I even get to "history.nl/nl" even though I'm a French speaker in Belgium. On a French connection it redirects to "aenetworks.tv".

I don't think there is any way to access that page from outside the US.

> I hate "intelligent" websites as much as I like touchpad microwaves, and that means not at all

So you don't hate "intelligent" websites, at all? :D Then you must love this lang-redirect!

Mine goes to Youtube after some quick redirects :(

Any chance the guy who programmed history.com to redirect deep links to your local tld version’s frontpage is on HN? What a helpful feature

They might be, but the necktie that made them do it sure isn't.